John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

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How aviators can handle career turbulence

Categories: Aviation, Home Page News

New virtual forum series from UND Aerospace confronts reality of aviation industry downturn UND archival image. This isn’t the airlines’ first rodeo. While the early impacts of a global pandemic have been grim for the airline industry, and the current students of UND Aerospace already have been affected in many ways, there’s a case for […]

UND Aerospace’s ground school sets pace with move to remote education

Categories: Aviation

Thanks to rapid action of UND Aerospace faculty, students can complete current ground school courses online UND archival image. UND Aerospace’s quick request to move its ground school online won almost immediate approval from the FAA, a development that may have paved the way for other aviation schools and students around the country, leaders of […]

Freshman trio wants to make airline-luggage tracking a ‘flash’

Categories: Aviation

Concept for modern baggage tag makes UND freshmen finalists in FAA Smart Airport Design Challenge From left to right, John Dulski, Mihir Patel and Harley Jiang are all academic freshmen in UND’s commercial aviation program. This past fall, they came together to create a potentially winning concept for a national design competition. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND […]

‘Eyes light up’ at third annual Aerospace Community Day

Categories: Atmospheric Sciences, Aviation, Earth System Science & Policy, Home Page News, Space Studies

Thousands venture through halls of UND Aerospace and get first-hand experience with nation’s leading flight school Eight-year-old Andrew Cassanelli controlled a virtual airfield with the help of Hannah Park, an air traffic management major, at Saturday’s Aerospace Community Day. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today. With a headset equipped, Andrew Cassanelli felt like he was the […]

Simulators on campus: UND Aerospace launches VR flight trainer

Categories: Aviation, Home Page News

Odegard School’s new Virtual Reality lab represents pilot training’s next frontier Students hone their flying skills in the new Virtual Reality Lab in the UND John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Photo by Mike Hess/UND Today. When he was being recruited as Associate Dean of the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Joshua Wynne made fast […]

Simulators on campus: Aerospace students ‘fly’ at zero altitude

Categories: Aviation, Home Page News

Simulators are perfect for hands-on learning and practicing emergency procedures — and UND makes full use of them The scenarios presented in UND’s 360-degree air-traffic-control tower simulator are so realistic, students at times emerge dripping in sweat. Photo by Shawna Schill/UND Today.   Editor’s note: It all started at the Link Piano and Organ Co. That’s where […]

Air Traffic Control hiring reform: What it means for UND

Categories: Aviation, Home Page News

Passage of Hoeven-led legislation, via defense bill, gives vital boost to UND’s Air Traffic Management program Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., shown here during his April 2019 visit to UND’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, was instrumental in passing the federal Air Traffic Control hiring reform as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. […]

UND researchers tapped to help improve oil-and-gas safety in Gulf of Mexico

Categories: Aviation, Home Page News

Aerospace, Petroleum Engineering receive $755,000 to study whether aviation safety concepts work for offshore drilling Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, assistant professor of aviation, is the principal investigator on a prestigious grant from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine examining the safety culture of the offshore drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by […]

Leader of newly formed Space Force visits UND

Categories: Aviation, Space Studies

Gen. John Raymond made his first public visit since the formation of the U.S. Space Force at the invitation of Sen. Kevin Cramer Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond (center) took part in a brief walking tour of UND Aerospace’s facilities during his time on campus with Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. (left). Photo by Connor Murphy/UND […]

UAS degree program reaches 10-year anniversary

Categories: Aviation

UND Aerospace has 225 UAS graduates since program launch in 2009 Since the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences launched its UAS operation degree program 10 years ago, there have been 225 graduates. Currently, there are 159 students majoring in the program. Photo by Shawna Schill/UND Today. Ten years ago, nobody knew how long […]